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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these compelling new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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